Businessman Killed

Suspects Sought

March 20, 1994|PHIL DAVIS

LANTANA — Palm Beach County sheriff's detectives are looking for four people for questioning in connection with the beating death of a businessman whose body was found in a Lantana motel room on Friday.

Edmund Strother, 45, who lived in the 1000 block of North Atlantic Drive on Hypoluxo Island, was found dead in a room at Motel 6, 1310 W. Lantana Road, around 2:30 p.m. Friday, said sheriff's Detective David Carhart. A maid found the body.

Strother, who a neighbor says ran an air conditioning business, was beaten to death with a blunt object on Friday. Carhart said the motive appears to be robbery.

The killer or killers stole Strother's wallet and his 1991 Ford Explorer, and burglarized his home after the slaying, Carhart said. The Ford has a Florida tag: IVV 65R.